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FL S1360
Concurrent Resolution
AI Summary
- Requests the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve replacing the statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith with a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in the National Statuary Hall Collection
- References Senate Bill 310 (passed March 2016) which authorized Florida to replace the Kirby Smith statue with a statue of a prominent Florida citizen recommended by the Great Floridians Program
- Mary McLeod Bethune was born July 10, 1875, in South Carolina and founded the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904, which grew to 250 students within 2 years
- Bethune served as the highest-ranking African-American woman in the Federal Government as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and founded the National Council of Negro Women
- Bethune's legacy includes Bethune-Cookman University with current enrollment approaching 4,000 students and the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site established in Washington, D.C. in 1995
Legislative Description
National Statuary Hall
Last Action
Died in Messages
5/5/2017
Committee Referrals
Rules4/13/2017
Appropriations3/30/2017
Full Bill Text
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